Jazz plans to introduce the world’s fastest SiGe technology, a novel optical disc technology has been developed that stores 200 Gb of data, and NTT DoCoMo plans to launch a 14 Mbit/s 3G cell phone service in early 2005.

The Wide Bandgap Materials Group of II-VI Inc, a commercial supplier of SiC substrates, has obtained $843,000 in funding for further development of its Advanced Physical Vapor Transport (APVT) SiC crystal growth technology.